Category Archives: Variety

South Africa's International Emmy-nominated production house Both Worlds and Paris-based Paradoxal have entered into an exclusive rights agreement with bestselling South African author Deon Meyer to d...

New Finnish series "Citizens of Heaven," written by Venla Aakko and Mika Ronkainen, creators of multi-prized sales hit “All the Sins,” has announced its cast. It will be led by Lauri Tilka...

HBO Max’s upcoming “Harry Potter” TV reboot could have lost its Albus Dumbledore. John Lithgow, who plays the famed Hogwarts headmaster in the new series, reportedly thought about qu...

Netflix’s live-action “Assassin’s Creed” series will be an original story set in Rome in 64 A.D., the streamer revealed on Friday. The hotly anticipated series, directed by Joh...

Projects from Jennifer Weiss, producer of Brian de Palma's "Redacted," and South Africa's Nomvuselelo Dlamini who made the "Surf Sangoma" episode of Disney's "Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire" feature in ...

Danish director and writer Elvira Lind's "King Hamlet" may, on the surface, be about her then-boyfriend-now-husband Oscar Isaac's preparation to play Shakespeare's most famous character in Sam Gold's ...

British-Romanian filmmaker Rachel Taparjan likes to quote George Bernard Shaw when talking about her debut feature, "Something Familiar." The "Pygmalion" playwright said, "If you can’t get rid o...

Prime Video’s top international executives used the stage at Prime Video Presents 2026 in Mumbai to underscore India’s central role in the streamer’s global growth strategy. Kelly Da...

Edko Films made one of the splashiest announcements at this year’s Hong Kong FilMart, officially unveiling “Cold War 1994” - the long-awaited prequel to Hong Kong’s highest-gro...

Philippine production companies Fusee and Studio 360 have formed a strategic partnership, unveiling their first collaboration - “One More Night to Live” (“Kon’ya Daremo Shinana...